Written by David Morrison

Being useless at everything else and because music is on my mind as many hours per day as koalas are asleep, I’ve spent the majority of my working life cheerily toiling away in record stores silver-haired baby toe. Thirteen years into my employ at the fabled Fascinating Rhythm in Nanaimo, BC, that situation – and, essentially, my music retail career – ground to an unceremonious halt upon the declaration of this godforsaken pandemic Download CartoonWars 1 ios.     

Oh, how I miss my regular customers and yakking day in, day out with them about the artform that is fundamental to my role on this beleaguered pale blue dot Free Photoshop Action. I also miss the buzz of random visits from artists I admire, such as Ryan Boldt, a scholarly roots music fanatic and the beating heart of recherché folk dreamers, The Deep Dark Woods 볼륨 부스터 다운로드.

Like myself, Ryan is a melomaniac: for he and I music is far above even a passion – it’s an intrinsic need. We now reside on opposite coasts, but when living on Vancouver Island he’d sporadically swing by between tours and recording to spend goodly time flipping through racks, rifling through boxes, and poking about the store’s dusty corners in search of rustic melodious treasures 배드피기즈 다운로드. Satisfied with the day’s findings, flashing a scratchcard winner’s grin he’d present me with a stack of arcane folk, bluegrass, old-timey, country-blues and gospel vinyl for purchase, then off at it we’d go…yak, yak, yak, music, music, music. He knows his stuff and I know mine, so our mutually enthusiastic exchanges flowed like whitewater. 

I dearly miss such simple, yet now inestimably valued interactions with Ryan and so many like him during the course of those working days, so how apt it is in this challenging time that the exquisite first single from The Deep Dark Woods’ forthcoming album, Changing Faces, is a pining contemplation on separation from a loved one, and the deep yearning for reconnection. In the same hankering spirit of his legendary compatriot Gordon Lightfoot’s classic “Early Morning Rain”, Ryan’s “Everything Reminds Me” is a stark chamber-folk song of haunting beauty, enhanced by melancholy strings arranged and performed by Maria Grigoryeva. Directed by the award-winning Craig Range, the intimate accompanying video shows the family of a friend of Ryan’s, rugged prairie folks going about their day in the isolated Saskatchewan hamlet of Cardross. Underscoring our innate need for closeness and community at a time when we’re so deprived of it, with dignity and quiet defiance the poignant short film also emphasizes that even the most mundane moments of any given day all add up to something far greater in life’s considerably grander scheme, should we care to look for them. Every moment, every second is precious, people; use them well.

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Directed by Six Shooter’s Artist in Residence Lyle Bell (currently a JUNO Award Album Artwork of the Year nominee for July Talk’s Pray For It), “Promises” video is the evolution and culmination of Bell’s vision for Modern Love’s visual aesthetic, not to mention the product of Six Shooter’s highly creative in-house Art Squad 너의 목소리가 보여 다운로드. “The band had done street photos with a massive balloon, the balloon being my idea of a metaphor for “modern love,” says Bell. “It’s beautiful but delicate. Once it pops it’s gone for good!”

“I thought about extreme slow motion videos on YouTube and how it would be cool to capture the definitive ‘pop’ moment with a Phantom camera,” shares Bell. “I was highly inspired by Harold Edgerton’s mid century bullet-time photography (Three Balloons) and I wanted an album cover to be a modern and dynamic version of this. The Promises video, shot at the same time as the album art, is this concept taken two steps further with balloon explosions, 40 pounds of glitter and samurai swords. There is no narrative, it’s again a colourful metaphor for how love can be beautiful and messy at the same time. A trippy Harold Edgerton moment for the 21 century.”

“I Wanna Make Promises (That I Can’t Keep)” is found on Whitehorse’s new full-length album, Modern Love, released last week. The first collection co-produced by the duo, Modern Love looks unflinchingly at the fantasies and realities of romance; how easy it is to get our wires crossed in the wireless age. Impressionistic, ambient and diffusive in sound, Modern Love’s sound taffy pull strings, surf-in-a-seashell guitar tones, and gauzy, hushed vocals.

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With life’s burst bubbles and crossed wires detailed in hi-def, Modern Love launches with “Prototype,” an atmospheric tribute to DNA one-of-a-kindness, strung with Lonely Hearts Club swells Nabiya song. Coded with themes of human glitches and emotional reboots, the beach tones of “Relic In The New Age” and ballad-type “Radio Silence,” interface between machine-enabled and machine-resistant human relationships. Modern Love is Whitehorse’s blueprint for love in the Digital Age 윈도우 구독자 다운로드.

“I Wanna Make Promises (That I Can’t Keep”), a loping, laidback fantasy 404, buzzes with electrostatic escapism for jolted, jilted ideas. “Promises” exposes all of the micro aches and urges that usually go unseen. Rare duet “Best Bet,” and all songs after that, further expose the collections’ emotional motherboard, a nest of circuitry carrying the curses and cruxes that muddle our signals to one another. Album closer “Pollyanna,” channels Greek mythology to modulate a chorus of unheeded disaster warnings.

Assembled at Taurus Recordings, a professional facility in Toronto, ON, Modern Love was hardwired by Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland, with additional component parts by Thom D’Arcy (string arrangements), Fred Eltringham (drums), Gus Van Go (bass on “Promises”), Robin Hatch (wurlitzer, mellotron) and Drew Jurecka (string performances).

With Modern Love, Whitehorse continues to tell their love story, if not the one they expected. Modern Love will be available on Friday, March 19. 

MODERN LOVE TRACK LIST

1. Prototype
2. I Wanna Make Promises (That I Can’t Keep)
3. Relic in the New Age
4. Radio Silence
5. Middle Earth
6. Liar Liar
7. Best Bet
8. Interlude
9. Run Run Run
10. I Can Only Imagine
11. Polyanna
12. Outro

ABOUT WHITEHORSE 

Since their debut, Whitehorse has traveled from magnetic folk duo to full-blown rock band and beyond. In truth Whitehorse is never fully either one or the other, but an ever-evolving creative partnership that challenges both artists, Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet, to explore new instrumental and lyrical terrain with each record. Steamy, swampy and squalling in equal measure, Whitehorse’s signature sound is guitar-heavy, harmony-abundant and lyrically deft. 

Now, the JUNO Award winners return with Modern Love, their first co-produced full-length album since the pink pop kink of Panther In The Dollhouse (2017). Most recently, Whitehorse expanded the intergalactic blues library with a second instalment of The Northern South project, performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, gave Massey Hall a birthday to remember, and stayed at home in 2020.

THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANETS RELAUNCHES WORLDWIDE MARCH 12.

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“A vintage soul and R&B feel to it, with sprinkles of both nostalgia and future by way of synthesizers and 808s.” – okayafrica

“Despite its title, Planets is less liturgical science fiction and more soulful and sublime, focusing on the cosmos of human experience.” – Pitchfork

The journey through Zaki Ibrahim’s expansive catalogue concludes with 2018’s The Secret Life of Planets, available worldwide on Friday, March 12 make it right 다운로드. From the stomach-flipping dives of “Dangerous” to the night sky echoes of “Galileo,” The Secret Life of Planets is essential Zaki Ibrahim listening. 

Ibrahim’s masterful, boundless album arrives with a never-before-seen video for “Cut Loose,” filmed in Ellis Park Stadium’s Tennis Club, in Johannesburg editplus2. The clip, edited by Ramon Charles, intercuts footage from 80s and 90s apartheid-era South Africa alongside portraits of ‘‘test subjects” who represent a multitude of possibilities 자명종 다운로드. The video delivers a message of the mind’s power to shift perspectives, movements and outcomes to break down oppressive societal constructs. Let go of assumptions and expectations to ‘find the star that you are 뱀파이어 헌터 d 다운로드.

The Secret Life of Planets, a synthesis of worlds ending and beginning, was produced with frequent collaborators Alister Johnson and Casey MQ. The album showcases Ibrahim’s many-layered vision of sound and story. At the time of its original release in 2018, Planets may have seemed, to critics and to Ibrahim herself, a statement on closure, the two halves of the mourning and joyful self made whole. From this vantage in 2021, Ibrahim has reassessed the healing process and now considers The Secret Life of Planets as only the start of this journey.

ABOUT ZAKI IBRAHIM
 
There’s a standard narrative that an artist releases an album, but for Zaki Ibrahim it seems the reverse is true. For an artist who is known for her multiplicity of influences and identities, absence from one scene is in fact presence in another. The difference between departure and arrival is simply a matter of perspective.
 
Throughout her career, from Vancouver to South Africa to Toronto and many points in between, Ibrahim has worked against the encroaching systems and machinery that would limit or dilute her vision. Ibrahim’s work pushes back against binaries, against reductiveness, against the clenching muscles of expectation. “Planets isn’t just a product of black American or South African music styles; its multiple identities make it distinctly Canadian,” writes critic Anupa Mistry for Pitchfork. “It’s the work of an optimist whose voice wasn’t silenced by the confines of an unimaginative industry; it’s expansive in effort, and by sheer existence.”
 
Ibrahim’s music brings elements of spoken word, hip hop, soul, house and 70s pop together, filtered through the prismatic and often contradictory lenses of personal, historical and scientific relativities. On stage, Ibrahim delivers theatrical, intricate configurations of bodies and ideas built on a contrast of sharp precision and untethered joy. Ibrahim aims to find space for spontaneity within the parameters of structure; in the same way that her music explores non-linear models of time and space, Ibrahim’s performances are designed with fluidity and recombination in mind.

High Priestess Publishing Expands Roster With New Signings Lana Winterhalt And Jesse Northey.

High Priestess Publishing and Six Shooter Records are pleased to welcome Temi Argyropoulos to the team as Publishing and Sync Manager, a role that will see industry veteran Argyropoulos working with a wide scope of repertoire including the label’s extensive 20-year catalogue, Six Shooter’s own publishing company Girl On A Horse, which represents Tanya Tagaq, Amelia Curran, Zaki Ibrahim and more, and new venture High Priestess Publishing, run by Kim Temple Naruto Bleach 2.6. “Music licensing has always been my passion,” says Argyropoulos. “From film and TV placements to big advertisements and video game trailers, it’s always been a thrill to see creative efforts come to fruition.”  

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In High Priestess’ first year of operations, Temple signed Witch Prophet, James Baley, DJ/Producer SUN SUN, and Zaki Ibrahim for outside writing and scoring. Witch Prophet’s DNA Activation was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize in 2020 and her short film “Tesfay,” will be featured at the SXSW Film Festival in March. James Baley’s collaborations with U.S.Girls, July Talk and Badge Epoque Ensemble put him in the spotlight in 2020. His much-anticipated solo project “A Story” will be released in Spring 2021.

Listen to the official High Priestess playlist here. 

ABOUT TEMI ARGYROPOULOS 

Temi Argyropoulos is a familiar name in the Canadian music industry and music supervision community.  It all started in the mid 90s at MCA Records where Temi began her licensing career in mechanical licensing and found her knack for licensing in all forms, including compilations, and eventually synchronization. For the past 20 years, she’s worked with many talented artists and songwriters at Warner Music Canada, Sony Music Entertainment Canada and most recently, Anthem Entertainment. 

ABOUT LANA WINTERHELT

Multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer and artist Lana Winterhalt delivers enigmatic and layered compositions inspired by breakups, insomnia, and true love. She sings with warm restraint over piano ballads like Diamonds and Right, and mines playful pop melodies on her debut full-length album If & When (2018). Winterhalt’s production is at once experimental, warm and bold (Maybe I’m Just Tired – remix).

On her EPs Still and Hold On To Me, written during the pandemic, she experiments with minimalist lyrics leading the listener on an existential journey while offering up reassurance through beauty, art and religion. Her repertoire also includes neo-classical instrumentals like “It Was Pouring Rain Then Just Like That The Sun Was Shining,” reminiscent of fellow Canadians Alexandra Stréliski and Jean-Michel Blais. Her latest EP Still offers a soothing backdrop for uplifting meditation, reflection, and decompression. File next to: Lucy Dacus, Enya and Feist.

ABOUT JESSE NORTHEY

There is neither smoke nor mirror when it comes to Jesse Northey’s music. Rather, the goal is to explode the artificed facade: of masculinity, of names, of ambition itself.

But he has done much: he’s a recording engineer, producer, composer and, of course, musician in his own right. Once a frontman for Jesse and the Dandelions, Onion Knight is Northey’s first album under his own name, unfettered. Produced by Thomas D’Arcy (The Sheepdogs, NOBRO, Yukon Blonde), the album is a shirking off of the combative way we have with our emotions, the effort we put into obfuscating (or hewing away) our intuitive meaning, especially when it comes to the intersect of gender and feeling. “It’s okay to be sensitive and sincere, that’s a strong quality and not something that is a weakness,” he says.

Newly signed to Toronto’s freshest publishing company, High Priestess, Jesse has recently started composing and producing bespoke songs and scores for film and television.